Common Birds in Greece
Our list for Greece has 111 common birds recorded regularly there: 52 residents, 29 summer visitors, 27 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Greece in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 111, most common first
Blue Rock-thrushMonticola solitariusResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
European ShagGulosus aristotelisResidentCommon65–80 cmRecorded all year
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisWinter visitorCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Little StintCalidris minutaWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jul–May
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
DunnockPrunella modularisWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Jul–May
CurlewNumenius arquataWinter visitorCommon50–60 cmRecorded all year
PochardAythya ferinaWinter visitorCommon42–49 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Scops-owlOtus scopsSummer visitorCommon19–21 cmRecorded all year
Little OwlAthene noctuaResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
GarganeySpatula querquedulaSummer visitorCommon37–41 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodiaResidentCommon80–90 cmRecorded all year
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made